Voices in the Ether
8/7/006
Since I am getting no comments perhaps I can really say whatever I want here. On my first post I thought that would be the case, so I addressed the dead. (They must be able to reach us somehow, and we them - the difference between life and death being so slight. No, there is no difference at all). But are we breaking some rule to attempt to communicate with them? I suppose....Death is very convenient in the sense of getting rid of people who would if alive stand in our way. Parents, e.g., have either to die,stand aside or become irrelevant. We accept their deaths, even if we are retrospectively tormented by our bad treatment of them. but we (I) cannot accept the death of lovers.
No, no, that's not it. We expect parents and spouses to follow us to our grave, but we never expect those whom we merely loved briefly to stand looking at us through the glass of death, not gesturing, only watching us gravely, as if waiting for us to find a way to reach them.
Since I am getting no comments perhaps I can really say whatever I want here. On my first post I thought that would be the case, so I addressed the dead. (They must be able to reach us somehow, and we them - the difference between life and death being so slight. No, there is no difference at all). But are we breaking some rule to attempt to communicate with them? I suppose....Death is very convenient in the sense of getting rid of people who would if alive stand in our way. Parents, e.g., have either to die,stand aside or become irrelevant. We accept their deaths, even if we are retrospectively tormented by our bad treatment of them. but we (I) cannot accept the death of lovers.
No, no, that's not it. We expect parents and spouses to follow us to our grave, but we never expect those whom we merely loved briefly to stand looking at us through the glass of death, not gesturing, only watching us gravely, as if waiting for us to find a way to reach them.
posted by wayfarer at 7:44 PM
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